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NAOMI WATTS
The Australian actress and entrepreneur, 54, has launched Stripes, a beauty brand focused on tackling the symptoms and stigma associated with menopause. She says she was inspired by those who embrace her age. “I look at women like Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon – several fantastic, talented, intelligent people and I’m just so impressed with them.”
Cosmetic improvements aren’t a priority for Watts…yet. “I did a lot of research and at times got close and thought about doing it,” she admitted to InStyle. “And that doesn’t mean I won’t do it someday. If I knew that I could look great and look just like myself but less tired, I’d be happy to do what needs to be done.”
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JAMIE LEE CURTIS
The 64-year-old actress has admitted she started tinkering with her face in her 20s (after a cameraman told her she had swollen eyes), but now she says she’s committed to aging. “I had plastic surgery,” Curtis said in October. “I got botox in my head. Does Botox make the big wrinkle go away? Yes. But then you look like a plastic figure. Walk a mile in my shoes. I did it. It did not work. And all I see is that people are now focusing their lives on it.”
In an interview with Fast Company, she took it a step further, bemoaning “the current trend towards fillers and processes and this filter obsession” and warned that it’s “wiping out generations of beauty.” Once you mess with your face, you can’t get it back.”
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PAULINA PORIZKOVA
The former supermodel, 58, often takes to social media to speak out about the societal pressures on women to maintain their looks as they age. “I want to find a balance between being proud to look my age and still feeling pretty at times,” she wrote, saying she’s engaged in laser and plasma pen treatments.
“In my job, I’m exposed to almost unnatural detail with my own face, and while I accept most of it, I still have a hard time accepting everything.” Speaking to People, she said she mostly shares her insecurities have overcome. “I’ve been ashamed of getting older, and on the other hand you’re like, ‘But I’m smarter, I’m better, I’m funnier, I’m more patient!’ Overall, as a person, I’m the best I’ve ever been. So I’m not ready to be fired.”
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SHARON STONE
The 65-year-old ‘Basic Instinct’ star told Vogue Arabia she was interested in cosmetic procedures in the years after she found Hollywood fame, but after she suffered a stroke in 2001 and needed a lot of botox and fillers to ” to shape one side of my face”. come back up,” she was turned off
forever. Now that she’s older, she told Allure magazine, “I like my body a lot more. I am so thankful for my body. When I was younger, everyone would tell me what was wrong with my body.” She adds; “I’m not afraid of aging. I stopped being scared a long time ago. I’m getting older and enjoying the process.”
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BROOKE SHIELDS
“I can’t say I love wrinkles because that would be a lie,” Shields, who turned 58 on May 31, said on TikTok in April. “But what I want to say is that I earned them, and they come from smiling, so I don’t want to erase anything that shows my maturity and growth and who I am today, and I don’t try to do that.” like I was when I was 15.”
The actress also told Prevention magazine that changing the way she thinks about aging is crucial. “You know, we fight the signs of aging, we fight aging, we fight … instead of actually embracing it,” she said. “I’m not saying to just forget it and not make an effort, but to really engage with aging and … individualize the way you go about your day to support it.”
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JUSTINE BATEMAN
The filmmaker and former Family Ties star has written a book in which he rejects the concept that older faces need fixing. “I hated the idea that half the population would possibly spend the entire second half of their lives feeling ashamed and apologizing that their faces had aged naturally,” said Bateman, 57, while speaking for her 2021 published book Face: One Square Foot of Skin.
Speaking about her own experience, she told Australian show 60 Minutes earlier this year that she welcomes the change in her looks. “I like to feel like I’m a different person now than when I was 20. I like to look in the mirror and see that evidence,” she said. “I think I look great. I think my face represents who I am. I like that.” The star added, “I would say to any young woman… you have great things ahead of you!”
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JULIANNE MOORE
As early as 2011, the 62-year-old actress made her stance on the operation clear. “My feeling is live and let live,” she told Health magazine. “Some of these surgeries that make you look younger, I don’t know if they actually make anyone look younger. I think most of the time they make you look like you’ve had something done to your face.”
She recently expressed her disdain for the phrase “aging gracefully,” asking, “Is there an indecent way to age?” “We obviously have no choice,” she told As If magazine. “No one has a choice about aging, so it’s neither positive nor negative, it just is.”
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SARAH JESSICA PARKER
Parker was 33 when she first followed in Carrie Bradshaw’s fabulous footsteps at the 1998 premiere of Sex and the City. When the show rebooted in 2022 with And Just Like That… (season two premiered June 22), Parker, now 58, was surprised that her appearance became a much-talked about topic of conversation. “It almost feels like people don’t want us to be totally okay with who we are, like they almost enjoy it when we suffer about who we are today — no matter if we are.” whether we choose to age naturally and not look perfect, or whether we “something if it makes you feel better,” she told Vogue.
She also told Bustle that she has “never” set foot in a plastic surgeon’s office and has no interest in turning back time. “I think the point of this bigger conversation is to make you feel good walking out the door,” she said. “How best to feel like yourself … I’ve probably spent more time thinking about it [that] than I have beauty or aging because I just can’t do much about it. I could do more but I don’t think I want to.”
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ANDIE MACDOWELL
The Groundhog Day actress has already championed natural aging and has proudly avoided plastic surgery, save for a brief attempt at Botox when she stopped dying her hair during the pandemic. “It suits me,” the 65-year-old said in an interview with Katie Couric. “It makes me laugh when someone says it makes me look older… What do you think? I look 75 just because my hair is turning gray?”
However, she said she wouldn’t have too much trouble with it anyway. “I want to be old. I’m tired of wanting to be young. I don’t want to be young. I was young… Why is getting older so shameful?” She continued. “We’re at the end. We must not waste time being ashamed.”
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SUSAN SARANDON
Sarandon’s secret to feeling young? “Honestly, I think it’s really important to stay engaged, stay curious and have a good time,” the 76-year-old star told Vogue. “And not smoking is really important. I think it’s important to stay hydrated and not do anything to extremes.” Sarandon has also admitted to having liposuction on her neck, chin and under the eyes, but prefers fillers and liposuction Botox a limit.
“The only thing I have a problem with is when people suddenly have huge lips that never had huge lips,” she told People magazine. “I’m a little nervous about anything really big or even botox because I have to use my face. But I’m all for people doing what makes them feel good.”
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MICHELLE YEOH
Yeoh, 60, accepted the Oscar for best actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once and warned against gender ageism: “Ladies, don’t let anyone tell you that you’ve ever passed your prime. Never give up.” In a CBS Sunday Morning interview, she discussed her career struggles. “The older you get, the more you realize your age and not your abilities,” she said.
The martial arts trained star keeps herself more than fit with her healthy lifestyle. “Age shouldn’t stop our passion for what we love to do,” she said. “Exercise has played a very important role in my life, not only for my stunt work, but also to keep me physically and mentally healthy.” In 2014, she shared her thoughts on anti-aging strategies. “Non-invasive cosmetic procedures can help, but I don’t believe in cosmetic surgery that changes your appearance,” she told the Bangkok Post.
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CAMERON DIAZ
A decade ago, the actress said she regretted getting Botox treatment. “I’ve tried it before, it was like a little touch of something,” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2014. “It changed my face in such a weird way that I was like, ‘No … I’d rather see it.'” My face is aging as a face that doesn’t belong to me at all.”
She then took a break from Hollywood, which improved her self-image. “Quite literally, the last thing I think about every day — and maybe not even during the day — is how I look,” says Diaz, 50, who is focused on raising daughter Raddix, 3, with husband Benji Madden. “I literally do nothing. I like never washing my face,” she explained on the ` Rule Breakers podcast. “I’m just not in the place to put my energy right now.”
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HELEN MIRREN
“People talk about aging gracefully and I don’t know what that means,” Mirren said in an interview with Candis magazine. “We seem to have gotten to a point where it means going without cosmetic surgery. For me it’s more about accepting who you are and what you are and dealing with that.”
At 77, the lady says she wouldn’t change a thing. “If someone said to me, ‘I’ll wave the magic wand and you’ll turn 25 again,’ I’d say no,” she told Vogue magazine. “Every age has advantages and disadvantages. As a result, I am happier to endure the benefits that aging brings and the impact it is having on my body, skin and mind.”
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